What Is the Silent Ransom Group?Silent Ransom Group (also known as SRG, Luna Moth, Chatty Spider, Storm-0252, and UNC3753) is a financially-motivated cybercrime gang that has been stealing data from companies and demanding payment.So, It's a Ransomware Gang Then?Well, not in the traditional sense. Most people when they think of ransomware still think of malicious hackers breaking into a company's...

Hackers have been hijacking Instagram accounts at scale by exploiting Meta's AI support chatbot. And, as if that weren't bad enough, the technique required no technical skill whatsoever.When we think about accounts being taken over, we often imagine something of at least some level of sophistication: a credential stuffing attack, a phishing campaign, a SIM-swap, or call center workers being bribed...

Business email compromise is a form of phishing that involves social engineering to masquerade as executives for personal gain.

For almost 20 years, stolen credentials have been the most common route for attackers into organizations, according to the Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR). But that's no longer the case.According to the newly published 2026 report, exploitation of vulnerabilities has overtaken credential theft as the leading vector for hackers to gain their initial access — accounting for 31% of...

Goher Mohammad’s path into cybersecurity may feel familiar, and for good reason. Starting in IT, then moving into risk and compliance before stepping into security leadership, his journey followed the same path that played out in the industry. We recently spoke with Goher about how the CISO role is evolving, what it takes to lead through an incident, and the challenges of securing organizations...

It's all very well defending your organization from external hackers and malware attacks, but your systems are only as strong as the people to whom you have handed the keys.According to new research, an uncomfortable number of people appear willing to sell critical credentials and passwords to the highest bidder.The Workplace Fraud Trends report, published by Cifas, claims that an eyebrow-raising...

Coming from a security lens, skepticism about AI is the default. With last week’s Mythos debacle hardly in the rearview, the attitude is only reinforced. I recently had the chance to sit down with Troy Hunt and pick his brain on the subject. What he had to offer was surprising, and (dare I say) refreshing. While we can never stop asking “how is this going to hurt us,” a myopic view of the...